Search Details

Word: freshmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

There will be a sunrise inter-House breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in Eliot and Adams Houses for all men--including freshmen--Assistant Dean Robert B. Watson '37 announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Eli Breakfast Early | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...included some comment or topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only get the freshmen into the civilizing habit of tea-drinking," someone was saying, as I reached for some sandwiches, obeying a primitive urge...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next